Diary of a Dead Wizard
Chapter 682: Expulsion

"Wizard Saul, do you feel there's still some problem?"

Corey seemed to sense Saul's emotional change and wasn't displeased by the ceremony's delay, just inquired seriously.

But she hadn't discovered any abnormalities at all.

Saul looked around at the people beside him and didn't choose to completely terminate the ceremony, but apologized to everyone around, "Sorry, please wait a moment while I adjust my condition."

He took in everyone's expressions around him.

He found no abnormalities.

Saul also understood that Storm Eyes were unlikely to be artificially controlled, but being accustomed to thinking one layer deeper, he still paid attention to the expressions of those around him.

He closed his eyes, seemingly adjusting his condition, but actually was using mental power to scan his entire body.

Originally, before the ceremony began, Saul had already checked his mental and physical condition to avoid problems with poor condition during the ceremony.

But obviously, conventional examinations couldn't detect Storm Eye abnormalities.

This time, Saul more seriously examined his entire body, even carefully screening his spiritual body once.

At this moment, his body didn't even contain a trace of pollution unique to the Borderland.

"Still haven't found any abnormalities." Saul slowly opened his eyes.

The advancement assistance formation beneath his feet had also been checked three times, and even when arranging this formation, isolation materials had been placed at the bottom layer to prevent underground pollution from damaging the formation.

"In the book page's simulation, the pollution indeed came from within my body, not from the underground formation. But this formation was a trigger that caused the Storm Eye to activate."

Although everyone around was full of doubts, they all knew the importance of advancing to third-rank and no one stepped forward to question.

Saul closed his eyes again. This time, he chose to directly enter his consciousness space.

The simple circular platform hadn't changed, the dark red hard-covered book above his head hadn't changed, and the surrounding starry sky still flickered like eyes.

"If the Black Tide appears from my body, then the Storm Eye must currently be hidden somewhere. I just never discovered it."

Saul lowered his head, light flashing in his eyes.

Black Tide had also appeared in his consciousness space before.

That time, the Black Tide had nearly submerged him, and finally the diary had driven back the Black Tide.

Of course, the stars might have also silently contributed.

"Could it have been then?"

Saul had always thought that the Black Tide pollution that made him faint had finally been forced into a drop of concentrated pollution source, so there were no remaining troubles.

Then, could it be that when the Black Tide was polluting him, it had already left the hidden danger of a Storm Eye in his consciousness space?

Saul quickly came to the edge of the circular platform.

Previously he had wanted to jump from here but was stopped by the diary. Obviously the diary thought his behavior of leaving the platform was fatal.

"So if I don't leave the platform, would there be no problem?"

Saul extended one foot, stepping out of the platform, but soon this foot landed on the platform's side.

"The consciousness space doesn't have distinct up and down. The reason I can stand on the platform isn't because there's gravity below the platform."

Saul's body tilted downward, then lifted his other foot.

Finally, he was standing steadily on the platform's side.

"My speculation wasn't wrong. What truly has gravity is this platform. Or rather, it's my consciousness wanting to stay on the platform."

Saul smiled slightly. Although he was still facing crisis, having his speculation proven true was still delightful.

The entire platform wasn't very thick, less than a meter.

So Saul walked one step and came to the edge again.

He repeated the previous steps, and this time, he came to the platform's underside.

Everything seemed unchanged - around him was still starry sky and endless darkness, only missing the dark red Death Wizard diary above his head.

If not for the lack of the diary blocking overhead, Saul couldn't even distinguish whether he had truly come to the platform's other side.

"But I haven't found anything here either... wait!"

Just as Saul was about to be disappointed by the lack of further discoveries, he suddenly noticed something strange.

He tentatively walked forward two steps.

Nothing special appeared before his eyes, but when Saul's mental power swept over, it discovered some distortion.

Because there were no impurities in the consciousness space, looking at the space's interior couldn't reveal where distortion had occurred.

But Saul's mental power perception was very keen, and he quickly discovered the abnormality.

He swept his mental power over again, more clearly confirming he had found the problem's source.

"This... is the Storm Eye?"

Such a small Storm Eye, besides causing some distortion to mental power, had no other abnormal manifestations. No wonder Saul had completely failed to discover that his consciousness space actually harbored such a devastating weapon.

Saul stared at the Storm Eye, which was smaller than a thumb, slowly narrowing his eyes.

He was trying to use consciousness to directly expel the Storm Eye from his consciousness space.

After a moment, his body transformed into tentacles, several tentacles dancing in the air.

After another moment, Saul's body reconvened into human form, but slowly became a mass of twisted light.

However, the Storm Eye remained in place, neither expelled one bit nor undergoing other changes.

Saul transformed back to his original appearance again.

"No good. With my power, I currently cannot expel the Storm Eye from this consciousness space. Borrowing the diary and stars' power would very likely work, but currently the Storm Eye is in a dormant state - they won't actively help me expel it."

And in the previous golden book page's future simulation, the diary and stars hadn't actively expelled the Storm Eye even until Saul had completely mutated.

Like previous discoveries, they seemed not to consider Black Tide fatal to Saul.

However, in the end, the Black Tide had truly caused Saul to mutate.

He couldn't confirm whether the Black Tide had deceived the diary or if there were other reasons. He could only save himself now.

"Last time I wasn't aware the Storm Eye was in my body and simply prevented pollution from entering my spiritual body. But with my power, I can't even shake a non-activated Storm Eye, let alone an activated one."

"So I still need to use the diary."

Having decided, Saul opened his eyes again, having left the consciousness space.

At this time, less than a minute had passed in the outside world.

So when he opened his eyes, he still saw everyone's puzzled yet inquiring gazes.

This time, Saul raised his head and said to Corey in the distance, "Ready now. Please activate the formation."

Corey nodded, said nothing more, and directly began the formation.

Over a hundred wizards around simultaneously activated the formations before them.

Immediately, the colorful magical reactions played out before Saul again.

Others' amazement and envy arrived as expected, but this time, Saul paid even less attention to others.

When the first stream of pure magic power entered Saul's body, he immediately abandoned guiding the magic power and entered the consciousness space again.

When he appeared on the platform, he found he was still on the platform's back side, and the small Storm Eye that had been unclear before had actually expanded to a one-meter diameter whirlwind in an instant!

And it was still continuing to expand!

But this time, Saul was no longer unprepared.

"Expel!"

"Rustle rustle" page-turning sounds rang in Saul's ears as the diary came before Saul in an instant.

Golden light mixed with white light enveloped above the diary.

At the same time, the surrounding stars also began flashing rapidly.

This time, with almost no effort, the Storm Eye that had expanded to three meters in front of him "whoosh" disappeared.

Saul had no time to be happy and immediately left the consciousness space.

However, just as he opened his eyes, he discovered that above his head, a huge vortex-shaped cloud formation with a diameter approaching five meters had appeared.

"Storm Eye!"

In the distance, Herbert was again the first to discover the anomaly and confirm the Storm Eye's existence!

(End of Chapter)